Barefaced Liar

Barefaced Liar : Phrases

Meaning:

Bold, audacious, impudent, or shameless.

Example:

Many boys in the neighbourhood group were brought up with no parental guidance and several were barefaced liars.

Origin:

Shakespeare first recorded barefaced in A Midsummer Night's Dream as beardless with no hair upon the face . By 1825, the phrase became the barefacedness of the lie and Harriet Beecher Stowe writes of a barefaced lie in Uncle Tom's Cabin.